Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 29, 2012

5 cent? Whoaaa…that goes back a ways.

There was a tavern just across the Wisc. border in Ill. that sold oleo. They had a neon sign above their door that read OLEO for the longest time I thought it was the name of the bar.

…and exactly how much bigger was the five-cent candy bar in comparison to the more expensive one we buy today?

I know I go back into my old ‘Household Searchlight’ for recipes and have to make adjustments all the time. Does anyone really know how big a ‘square’ of chocolate is??

I found a nickel candy bar in one of my grandad’s shirt pockets several years after he had died. It was still, um. good. And I’d like to see the rest of the recipe from today’s comic!

You’re a plugger when the best cookie recipe you have calls for an item that is no longer made. Bring back Rockwood Mints!

…and Oleo. The first time I saw that on a recipe card it was in my Grandma’s collection and I had to ask her what it was.

Your a plugger if you keep a supply of unsweetened chocolate in your cupboard for such recipes (as your mother & grandmother did) because candy bars are too expensive.

Be blessed.

Moe.

Oleo in the recipe may give the date away too.

Nothing says tasty to a Plugger like oleo. Mmmmm…

Five cents for a candy bar? Is has been a while!

When wife was watching my mother make a chocolate cake and the chocolate frosting(with the unsweetened chocolate), everything was fine until she added some coffee to the mix. My mother loved coffee(it really helps the chocolate), my wife can’t stand it and could not imagine that it would make the chocolate taste better.(it does)

Hmm. I would like to see the REST of that recipe.

The oleo I’m remembering was not very good tasting. During WW 2 butter was unavailable unless you owned your own cow so someone decided orange food coloring mixed with lard (rendered animal fat) would make a good substitute. It was sold unmixed and I remember my mama standing at the kitchen counter using a table fork and trying to smush a little orange pill into a pound of lard. We only got store-bought candy at Christmas in our stockings along with an orange and an apple and a handful of pecans and almonds.

Actually, I think the Plugger lady would know about the candy bars. This would have been more effective if it has shown her teaching her granddaughter how to bake the cake. Sorry, Gary, for second-guessing you.

Celarius - OLEO Was that the one on Rt 41 North of Chicago? LOL

Sounds good to me! :D

I want the rest of that recipe! Sounds too yummy.

I have an old family recipie book entitled, “Take the Gray Bowl. . .”. YES, there IS a recipe that includes that direction. (It is a unit of measure SMILE!)

I remember when Jesus was just a boy.

Rinky…the cookbook Phillipians which we both have from the now extinct Phillip Texas has many more. JN

I remember Oleo, nickel candy bars, which by the way were about 25 % bigger back then , and a time when you didnt run to the bakery for a cake,,you made it at home from scratch

Oleo?? Even my Grandmother wouldn’t use that stuff!! Said it was fake butter!!

2and 0ne half cups of flour? Wow! (Sorry, I’m a single man that dropped out of MENSA!)